Professor Dempsey is a UCC graduate, he completed postgraduate training in Paediatrics in Ireland and later a Neonatal Fellowship at McGill University Health Centre, Montreal. He is the inaugural Horgan Chair in Neonatology at University College Cork, a Neonatologist at Cork University Maternity Hospital and is clinical lead at the INFANT Research Centre UCC. He is a member of a number of international collaborations conducting randomised trials on different aspects of neonatal care (Premod 2, Safeboosc3 and COSGOD trials). He leads a number of local clinical studies, supervising PhD students and junior doctors on many aspects of newborn medicine including cardiovascular support and the newborn microbiome. He is a member of a number of international organisations including the European Society of Paediatric Research, European Neonatal Echo Working group, European NIRS Working group and Pharmacology section of the European Society for Paediatric Research. He has been awarded a number of Higher Degrees, including a doctorate for work on Hypotension in the preterm infant, an MSc in Health Care Ethics and Law and an MA in Teaching and Learning, focused on Simulation based procedural care. He has > 200 publications in newborn care.

Dr Jose Honold is a Professor of Pediatrics at the University of California San Diego. He has worked as a Neonatologist and ECMO specialist for over 25 years in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and CVICU at Rady Children’s Hospital San Diego. Dr Honold has been the Medical Director of the Neuro NICU since it was developed in 2011. He has trained fellows and nurses to performed neuromonitoring on infants admitted for evaluation of possible Brain injury. His team has been involved in several published Research projects, mostly looking for more efficient anticonvulsants like the NEOLEV study and the Lacosamide Study. Dr Honold has been a board member of INA soon after it was founded and is now the current President of the International Neonatal Association.

A long-time resident of Atlanta, Georgia, Lucky Jain, MD, MBA completed his medical degree and residency at the University of Rajasthan in Jaipur, India. From there he was awarded a Rotary International Award for advanced training in pediatrics and neonatology which marked the start of his illustrious career in pediatrics. Dr. Jain is a specialist in respiratory disorders of newborns and is credited for highlighting the role antenatal steroids play in fetal lung fluid clearance and the ensuing multicenter trial of antenatal steroid treatment in late preterm gestations. He currently serves as Pediatrician in Chief at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta; as George W. Brumley Jr. Professor and Chair of the Department of Pediatrics at the Emory School of Medicine; and as Executive Director of the Emory + Children’s Pediatric Institute. Dr. Jain is passionate about extending the focus on wellness to all physicians at Children’s and leads by example.

A long-time resident of Atlanta, Georgia, Lucky Jain, MD, MBA completed his medical degree and residency at the University of Rajasthan in Jaipur, India. From there he was awarded a Rotary International Award for advanced training in pediatrics and neonatology which marked the start of his illustrious career in pediatrics. Dr. Jain is a specialist in respiratory disorders of newborns and is credited for highlighting the role antenatal steroids play in fetal lung fluid clearance and the ensuing multicenter trial of antenatal steroid treatment in late preterm gestations. He currently serves as Pediatrician in Chief at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta; as George W. Brumley Jr. Professor and Chair of the Department of Pediatrics at the Emory School of Medicine; and as Executive Director of the Emory + Children’s Pediatric Institute. Dr. Jain is passionate about extending the focus on wellness to all physicians at Children’s and leads by example.

Dr. Anup Katheria is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics, and the Director of the Neonatal Research Institute and the NICU follow-up clinic at Sharp Mary Birch Hospital for Women & Newborns. Dr. Katheria earned his BS in Biology from the University of California, Los Angeles, his MD from Drexel University College of Medicine, completed his pediatric residency at Children’s Hospital of Orange County, and his Neonatal-Perinatal Fellowship at the University of California, San Diego. He is the principle investigator for several trials: 1. Comparing cord milking to early cord clamping in term non-vigorous infants (MINVI trial). 2. Comparing delayed cord clamping to umbilical cord milking in preterm infants (PREMOD2 trial). 3. Comparing early CPAP to early caffeine plus LISA (CALI trial) in preterm infants. 4. Comparing hi versus low oxygen during delayed cord clamping in extremely preterm infants (DOXIE trial).

2021- Emeritus professor 2016-19 Chairman of the Danish Council on Ethics 2013-19 Chairman of paediatrics, University of Copenhagen 2009 - 2012 Deputy head gyn/obs/paed, University of Copenhagen. 2001 - 2012 Head of Department, Neonatology, Rigshospitalet 1998 – 2021 Professor of Paediatrics, University of Copenhagen 1991 – Consultant neonatologist, Rigshospitalet Heading research in neonatal brain perfusion, oxygenation, brain injury, and neurodevelopmental deficits and perinatal growth. Coordinating investigator in the SafeBoosC project. Clinical coordinator of the NEOMUNE project. Steering committee member in four European research and educational projects. President for the European Society of Paediatric research and for the International Pediatric Research Foundation. Chairman of a regional research ethics committee. Knight of the order of Dannebrog. 2022 prize of Eur Soc Paediatr Res. Over 30 phd-students. Over 400 publications on PubMed. Over 10.000 citations.